MultiSkilling

[swampthebed]

Has anyone on here turned down the Multiskilling course?

[Mighty_Wokka]

Has anyone on here turned down the Multiskilling course?
If you do...

...its the end :raf:

[wearthefoxhat]

I know of two leckies that have turned down the multi skilling but both were in their last couple of years and couldn't be ar$ed with it.
Bit short sighted perhaps as it would have meant better chance of getting a job when they left?!

[reddeathdrinker]

Aye, one of our corporals turned it down flat.

Said he didn't have the spare time to spend away from his sunbed and hair gel ;)

[Hu Jardon]

Aye, one of our corporals turned it down flat.

Said he didn't have the spare time to spend away from his sunbed and hair gel ;)
I thought you were an ex Sootie - I didn't know you worked with the PTI's

[enginesuck]

Would that be the same jnco who cant fire an sa80 because he has a slight squint in his right eye??? - the same jnco for whom i had to do his night guard over my wedding anniversary? the same jnco who wont be able to go to the gulf so ill have to go out early, the same jnco who cant remove an engine without knackering the mount then refusing to take resposiblity for it? Am i right ?? :PDT_Xtremez_32:

[Rob]

I know a guy that 'failed it on purpose' He must have know what he was doing because he got promoted 9 months later!!

[avtur por homme]

One of our Dog F***er SNCOs turned his down stating he only had a few years left and what was the point-he had his pension and was happy......he was invited for a personal interveiw with the cheif clerk and OC admin

[monobrow]

I know a guy that 'failed it on purpose' He must have know what he was doing because he got promoted 9 months later!!

wouldn't happen to be a pie scoffing brummie fairy????

[reddeathdrinker]

Would that be the same jnco who cant fire an sa80 because he has a slight squint in his right eye??? - the same jnco for whom i had to do his night guard over my wedding anniversary? the same jnco who wont be able to go to the gulf so ill have to go out early, the same jnco who cant remove an engine without knackering the mount then refusing to take resposiblity for it? Am i right ?? :PDT_Xtremez_32:

I think you've hit the nail right on the head there........"pout pout"

[Major Geek]

I went to the Chief Clerk and said I'm not interested and he said you'll have to wait until you are nominated for one before you can turn it down. Now where is the sense in that? I was trying to prevent them wasting their time and my time.

[sumps]

I was recently talking to a colleague about this. It really is another scam for twin-hating and not true multi-trading otherwise we would have aligned to EASA. The reckoning for putting the Riggers/ Sooties and Elect/Fairies together is because "they-the all-(un)-knowing” at the top of the heap are 5h!t scared of creating mirrored B1/B2 trades (i.e. without licence & type) because we will all leave!

1. That will hold no audience with the airlines unless you want to go in unlicensed.
2. I hear a lot of people saying that they do not want to work with aircraft.
3. I don’t think that "they-the all-(un)-knowing” are aware of how many of the JR/SNCO cadre have got themselves academically aligned to their experience.

Do you want to work in the aviation industry? (Airline maintenance or aircraft manufacture – this country or oversees)

My guess is that "they-the all-(un)-knowing” would be just as safe by putting us through true B1 style training because the ground troops are too hacked off to care e.g. over subscription for redundancies (including people trying to sneak under the wire) or those who are going to early financial brake points (12 / 22) and not going full term.

[monobrow]

to be honest, If the RAF did the licences, and put a retainer on it so you HAD to do X amount of years, I'd do it! how many people here wouldn't?? Having that tick in the box is a massive step into quite a few peoples plans for after life in a blue suit. Admittedly not everyones, but it could be an optional course?????

[dkp1]

As a jelly tot I postponed my multi skilling twice, the third time of asking was when my OASC was due, my chief insisted that I went to multiskilling.....After speaking to the adj I realised that in the AP the line was ....officially turning the training down meant that I couldn't be promoted into a job that required a multi skilled bod, I could however by promoted into one that didnt. Needless to say the SengO bless him told the chief to wind his neck in, I went to OASC and am now an EngO......

Always read the small print....................

[propersplitbrainme]

.... I went to OASC and am now an EngO

So you went from single skill to no skill whatsoever then? :PDT_Xtremez_42:

[dkp1]

Correct!!!!!!!!

[mightyhunter]

Would that be the same jnco who cant fire an sa80 because he has a slight squint in his right eye??? - the same jnco for whom i had to do his night guard over my wedding anniversary? the same jnco who wont be able to go to the gulf so ill have to go out early, the same jnco who cant remove an engine without knackering the mount then refusing to take resposiblity for it? Am i right ?? :PDT_Xtremez_32:bless him!! he hasn't improved since i worked with him last.... think he needs another stint in eng records. paper shuffling is all he's good at!

[Enguineer]

I know of quite a few who have refused the 'other' multi-skilling course, including most of a section at a particular unit.